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        %HUMAN PERSON SELF OTHER COMPUTER AUTOMATON 910301

     In what ways are people different from computers?

     To  what  extent can a computer behave  as  a  person
does?

     Can computers replace people by  being "better"  than
people In what situations?  In personal relationships?  In
sexual relationships?

     Some people have  come to have great  respect for the
powers and abilities of computers,   and tend to feel that
in  time computers  will  be  more competent than  people.
It   is  important,  however to recognize that  there  are
significant  ways  in  which  people  are  different  from
computers.

     People  are  reflexive  in ways which  computers  are
not reflexive.

     People    are    concerned  about   how   to   define
themselves  as being of significance.

     People care what other people think of them,  and how
other people relate to them.

     People  can   take  care  of  themselves   in   novel
situations.

     Computers can be  like people only to the extent that
people are like programmed automatons.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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